Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

. Repeat this for thicknesses of 2and 4 paper towels, performing two trials for each thickness. Also average these and record allthese values in Table 2. # of Towels Trial 1 Trial 2 Average The lab can stop here, at which 1 point the students are asked some 2 reflection questions: (1) How is 4 thickness related to attenuation and Table 2. Record the amount of water than went how does this relate to photon through the paper towel here. Average the two values absorption? (2) How is this lab set- for each thickness and record that, too

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Turner; Joseph Hoffbeck

, and may become discouraged. One solution to this problem is to give the students a set of tools that allow them toexperiment with the theory to verify the theory and to test their understanding of the theory. Thestudents can then become active learners engaged with the material by designing their ownexperiments, making observations, and reflecting on the results. The software package Simulink from The MathWorks, Inc. can be used to model andsimulate a variety of systems in a high-level, block diagram format without any low-levelprogramming. Many papers discuss how Simulink can be used as an effective teaching tool inareas such as electronic control systems,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 dynamic systems,11,12,13,14,15,16 mechanicalsystems

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

reading it in atextbook. They need the opportunity to perform the task in order to truly learn. Dr. Bickmanalso stresses that reflection is a critical component to bring the experience back into the abstractlearning process. Also, partnerships are critical to long-term success of service-learning projectsin developing communities. Communities need to have a sense of project ownership; otherwisethe projects are doomed to fail. Setting expectations early will keep people from beingdisappointed when modest results are achieved. Once a community’s basic needs are met, thenthey can begin to consider ways to improve their economic situation.References1 Hargroves, Karlson C. “Integrating Sustainable Development in Engineering Education Curricula as a

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

individuals into a fully functioning, cohesivegroup.Table (1) reflects on the evolutionary process of preparing the students for their demanding tasksin their senior year. The remainder of this section briefly discusses the steps taken in formingand developing Senior Project Teams with the specific intention to participate in a national or Page 10.1443.2international collegiate competitive event. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Nature of the Design

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Piechota; Shashi Nambisan

Page 10.808.9than an equal share of the work, and lower grades to students who did less than an equal share of Proceeding of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Educationthe work. Figure 7 is the peer rating evaluation form used for the design project in CEE 413.Table 1 summarizes the results from nine (9) student groups. The results of the evaluations wereused by the instructor to adjust the student grades. It is noteworthy that in all groups gradeadjustments were needed. A maximum of 3% adjustment was used to avoid excessiveadjustments that may not reflect the true contribution of the students

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fengfeng Zhou

-calculus andcalculus, so they felt frustrated with regard to derivatives, these results should be regarded asvery positive. In addition, every student felt the activities were challenging, and they were foundto be quite engaged in carrying out their investigations. Figure 2 Students concentrating on their work Page 10.743.5Although students’ reflections should be heeded, they need to be heeded with analysis. Toinvestigate students’ attitudes about learning, a third activity was implemented following the twoProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

Society for Engineering Education”7. Students were asked to reflect on the course and to give suggestions for improvementsas well as criticisms. Their responses included:Suggestions for improvement/negative comments: • make the class less boring (6 responses) • make the class more interactive (3) • homework was annoying (3) • make it more “real world” (2) • engage the class more (2) • have more non-engineering speakers/broaden topics (2) • use a single screen for displays (1) • move this to the junior year (1) • don’t do group activities (1) • have only guests, not our professors (1) • have food (1) • link the speakers and topics (1) • instead of homework, require one job or

Conference Session

New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis; Hugh Jack

. Moreover, we must reviseour programs to reflect the new reality of manufacturing as a global enterprise where ourgraduates are likely to design products locally to be produced in another part of theworld.IntroductionMany Manufacturing Engineering and Technology programs in this country are seeing analarming decline in enrollments. There are twenty-five ABET accredited manufacturingengineering programs, however there are only approximately twenty still activelyrecruiting students. In most cases, if not all, the programs shrinking as the numbers ofincoming students dwindle. For many Americans, the word “outsourcing” and"globalization" conjures up images of manufacturing job decline [5]. Airwaves are abuzzof late with talk about the loss of

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jefferey Froyd

future learning can be fostered by confronting students with meaningful, [realistic, challenging] … problems that are representative of tasks they will encounter in the future”8. De Corte Principle #5. Fifth, learning activities should induce “students to articulate and to reflect on their cognitive and motivational processes during learning and problem solving. Indeed, to become productive and self-regulated users of their cognitive and motivational potentials, students should be aware of them, and believe that they are worthwhile and useful”8.Extensive work on a pedagogical approach for open-ended problems referred to as ModelEliciting Activities (MEA) has generated six principles in developing a MEA14-16

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust; David Myszka

the project. Most questions the teams ask arethe same. However, a few questions reflect different approaches, understanding andresponses to the problem. At this point, the competition begins. Now the advisors mustcommunicate a few ground rules to the project participants.Ethical DilemmasThe word competition is often associated with negative business environments.Therefore, if we wanted teams to perform ethically and respectfully, we had tocommunicate our expectations to the teams and their leadership. Students perform andact to the expectations set by their leadership. As advisors, our responsibility to set thestage to ensure this happens. We conduct separate meetings prior to the initial clientmeetings to discuss ethical dilemmas that are

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

classroom setting.The on-line learning environment facilitates a learner-centered approach to learning, withthe learner as an active participant in the learning process. The approach requires that theteachers help learners to direct their own learning in ways that suit their individuallearning styles.This manuscript describes development and implementation of a Web CT-based coursewhich requires the engineering technology students at Excelsior College to develop on-line portfolios reflecting technical competencies acquired by them during their academicstudies. The course is titled “Integrated Technology Assessment” (ITA). It is a capstoneexperience for students documenting their ability to integrate knowledge from technologyand general education

Conference Session

Inquiring MINDs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

Height and Volume of Water Tan 10/10/99 Science of Pizza Making 11/14/99 Sound and Music 12/12/99 Floating and Sinking 01/09/00 Shadows and Reflections 02/13/00 Rockets and Forces 03/12/00 Science of Ice cream Making 04/09/00 Life in Water 05/14/00 A swingin’ good time (pendulum) 10/22/00 Methods of moving heavy objects

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gurdip Singh

were used to evaluate the course delivery process. As shown inthe following table, the students were overwhelmingly positive about the course delivery process.Students used a 5-point scale ( 1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = In between, 4 = Agree,5 = Strongly agree). % positive reflects ratings of 4 or 5; % negative reflects ratings of 1 or 2.Percentages may not be equal to 100 because those responding “in-between” and those omittingthe items are not reported. Lectures Handouts Assignments Web Resources % positive 83 86 80 65 % negative 3 3 4 5 Amount of Student Learning:The amount of student learning was also evaluated

Conference Session

Achieving Diversity in the CE Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

Session 2515 Retention of Women and Minority Engineering Educators: Is This Important to the Profession? Norma Jean Mattei, Ph.D., P.E. University of New OrleansAbstract: Engineering has typically been a profession dominated by the white male. The undergraduate engineering student population, although more diverse than before, is still not reflective of the demographics of the general population. One way to attract and retain women and minority students is to have a faculty that is diverse (that also consists women and minority educators). However, there are not many women and minority engineering Ph.D

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

undergraduate Industrial Engineering (IE) program at WPIemphasizes the preparation of undergraduate students for professional engineering practice. Inaddition to a curriculum focused around core industrial engineering skills, we seek to accomplishthe mission through a culture that promotes active student learning. We want to teach theprocess of learning, rather than simply transferring knowledge to our students. An overview ofthe IE program is provided in Figure 1; the arrows signify the general order courses are taken.The focus on active learning is reflected in the curriculum by emphasizing project-orientedassignments in courses, as well as promoting flexibility in the curriculum to allow students topursue minors and choose electives that reflect

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Sole; Carlos Morales

meanused as the population mean in computing the t scores of the following 4 tests and testingof the alternative hypothesis in each test..Test two studied the use of only instructional video. Each subject was permitted to watcha twelve-minute video that showed step by step the actual assembly of the board (thistime is not reflected in their time scores). After they finished the video, they were notpermitted to review it during assembly or to use the instruction or schematics. The Null(Ho) and alternative (Ha) are as follows: Hot: There will be no change in the amount of time taken (µ1 = µ2) Hat: It will take more time (µ1 < µ2) Hom: There will be no change in the number of mistakes (µ1 = µ2) Ham: There will be more

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

advance of the conference, to attract papers from international educators in developing countries who will not be able to participate in the conference in person; Page 7.945.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Ø Design a pre-conference aimed at introducing new international conference participants to overall trends and background reflected in the main conference, so that they will benefit more from the presentations and discussions. Given the continuing problem of preparing

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

do not understand the importance of actually following instructionsbecause they have simply never been told that this process is important and given reasons tosubstantiate the claim.Real World StudiesCase studies where instructions have been circumvented or completely violated are good ways toget students to actually understand the importance of following instructions. One such case is thetragedy of the Challenger. While many issues have been discussed in regard to the challengerdisaster, here we can focus on the serious problem that occurred because some very simple Page 7.569.3instructions never saw completion. This is reflected in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manohar Nekkanti; Alan Fuchs

instrument. enable the piezo-electric scanners to maintain the tip at a constant force (to obtain height information), or height (toobtain force information) above the sample surface. The AFM head employs an optical detectionsystem in which the tip is attached to the underside of a reflective cantilever. A diode laser is focusedonto the back of a reflective cantilever. The tip scans the surface deflecting the laser beam and finally Page 7.352.4passes the signals to a photo detector (3) as shown in Figure 4, which measures the difference in light“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

fashion has never been fully successful; our AETcurriculum is by its nature integrated and connected. We have found that the most importantelement in good teaching is involving students to enable them to think and learn on their own. Page 7.13.7 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conferen ce & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1606However, more importantly, our graduates are finding a flattering reflection of their

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvia Alexander

collaborative research project with NORTEL Networks (NI) Ltd concerned with the use of AI techniques, high performance computing and software engineering.3. Teaching Entrepreneurial SkillsBusiness operations have changed as a result of competition and globalisation, withincreasing emphasis being placed upon the generation and adoption of new andinnovative ideas. In order to be successful in the workplace, graduates must beequipped with entrepreneurial skills necessary for new product development.In the 1997 UK Inquiry into Higher Edu cation 3, Lord Dearing recommended thatinstitutions should “identify opportunities to increase the extent to which programmeshelp students to become familiar with work, and help them to reflect on suchexperience

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruxandra Botez; Iulian Cotoi

turn rates are the turn indicator and theturn coordinator. The turn indicator measures rate of turn as a change of compass heading overtime. The turn coordinator factors in the roll rate of the banked wing. Thus, when the wings are firstbanked, the nose of the aircraft may not start to change headings immediately. Therefore, the turncoordinator may register the roll or bank before the turn indicator reflects the progress of the turn indegrees of change. At the bottom of the turn coordinator and turn indicator is the inclinometer orthe slip/skid indicator or the ball, which shows the balance of forces at work in a turn.When the aircraft nose turn to the left or right, the a straight needle on the turn indicator deviatesalso to the left or right

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Zarrugh

ofEngineering and Technology (ABET) reflect the need for reform and call for total overhaul oftraditional engineering curricula. 7 ABET's Criterion 3, Program Outcomes and Assessment,describes eleven specific outcomes in the skills of graduates of accredited engineering programs.In addition to traditional "hard" skills involving mathematics, science and technology, the criteriarequire the "softer" abilities of functioning in multidisciplinary teams, understanding ethical andprofessional responsibility, communicating effectively, understanding the impact of technologyon society, life-long learning, and knowing contemporary issues.A survey conducted in 1996 has quantified the attitudes of practicing engineers to ABET’sCriterion 3 requirements. 3

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Olakunle Harrison

Engineering Educationfor example, engine designers, out of students; we do not expect that a new hire in theautomotive industry would be given major engine design responsibilities. Consequently, thecourse content reflects topics in which the student might already have some background andconcepts that the typical new graduate is likely to encounter in industry - automotive as well asnon-automotive. Students learn how engineering theory is applied in an already familiarcontext. They are introduced to some of the practical considerations involved in the design ofautomotive systems, for example, mathematical models, determination of system loads, designlife, safety issues, factors of safety, and weight reduction strategies in component design.Table I

Conference Session

Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Elizabeth McCullough; Kimberly Rogers; Joseph Hickey; Andrew Hoff; Eric Roe; Marilyn Barger

information provided the most important information available to theuser from the instructor portion of the module are the lesson plan options. The Lesson Planscomponent is further subdivided to provide lesson plans for Physical Science, Chemistry andPhysics courses. Understanding that a HSTI module will never meet its educational objectives ifteachers do not use it, these lesson plans suggest how the teacher can integrate the units into theirscience curriculum. They were developed in concert with the teachers who "beta" tested themodule, and reflect the in-class trials performed during that phase of testing.The Standards page is also a significant component of the teacher introduction to a HSTImodule. This page is accessed via the "Standards" hot

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Descoteaux; Kevin Sutterer

(R-HIT) Knowledgeconducts courses in a 10 week quarter system. In thejunior year, nearly all civil engineering students takethe required courses Soil Mechanics in the Fall Quarter, Figure 1. Levels of learning inStructural Design in Reinforced Concrete (Concrete the cognitive domain (1)Design) in the Winter Quarter, and Structural Design inSteel (Steel Design) in the Spring Quarter. Design and revision of these courses to their currentstate was not a formal process, but rather the outcome of unplanned brainstorming, reflection onstudent evaluation results, interaction with professional colleagues and discussions that oftenopen with comments like

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette; Debra Ricci

rate. The consultant analyzed the collected data (completed written student and parentquestionnaires, the scribes’ notes of the parents morning meeting and the late afternoon meeting,and the consultant-facilitator’s notes and captured recollections from the two meetings) fortrends. Five completed student questionnaires were submitted reflecting summaries of each ofthe lunch table student-parent groups. Only four completed parent questionnaires were handed infrom the 13 parents who participated in some or all of the campus visit day. (One was emailedone week later.) However, the four items on the parent questionnaire generated considerableverbal information that shaped the closing focus group discussion and was captured by thescribes and the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kip Nygren

organizational model for students perhaps best exemplified by the concept of a“Learning Organization” that has recently been heralded by the business community. Accordingto David Garvin of the Harvard Business School, “A learning organization is an organizationskilled at creating, acquiring, interpreting, transferring, and retaining knowledge, and atpurposefully modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights.”4 Just as a change or learning process is essential for organizations, it is even moreimportant for individual students, faculty and staff. Garvin’s definition of a learningorganization when applied to individuals becomes a definition of education. The processes ofacquiring, interpreting, and retaining knowledge and then

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

sophomorelevel engineering mechanics courses at a different institution. At that time, I believed that myindustrial and academic experience together with a previously used syllabus for the course wouldbe enough to succeed. As it turned out, despite what I thought was a good plan, the initialoffering of the course was a disappointment, both from the standpoint of the students' evaluationof my teaching effectiveness and my own sense of the how the course went. Upon reflection, Imade several changes to the course, and the results were substantially improved the second time.Again this was reflected in both the student evaluations and my own satisfaction.Assessments of teaching such courses have been presented before; for example, Yue 1 assessed acomparable

Conference Session

Multimedia and Product Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Irwin

of the models and subsequentmodifications. A similar process was used to create associative drawings as discussed earlier forproduct drawings. Product part profiles in phantom were added to the tooling assembly drawingas a view dependent editing function. An important part of the tooling drawings was that theyused the same product model that was used in the product assemblies, so it was the most currentversion of the product and would reflect any subsequent product changes.Engineering Change NoticeA change notice was introduced in the final week of class to make a change to the part that fit inthe tool as a final test of the parametric capability built into the students’ product assemblies,tooling assemblies and parts. The test was that if